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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-11
A Remarkable Army Story.
Cover my deIenceless head

Cover my deienceless head ~
With the shadow OF thy wing" w
A party OF northern tourists formed
part OF a large company gathered on
the deck OF an excursion steamer that
was moving slowly down the historic
Potomac one beautiful evening in the
summer OF 1881. a gentleman who
has since gained o national reputa-
ton as an evangelist OF song had been
delighting the party with the happy
rendering OF many familiar hymns, the
last being the sweet petition so dear
to every Christian, beginning "Jesus,
lover OF my SOUL"
The singer gave the first two verses
with much feeling, and peculiar en-
phasis upon the concluding lines that
thrilled every heart. A hush had fall
EN- upon the listeners that was not
broken for some seconds after the
musical notes had died away. Then
a gentleman made his way from the
crowd to the side OF the singer, and
accosted him with, "Beg your pardon,
stranger, but were you actively en-.
gagged in the late war;"
"Yes, sir" the man OF song answered
courteously; 81 fought under General
Grant"
WELL" the first speaker continued
with something like a sigh. 81 did my
fighting on the other side, and think,
indeed am quite sure, ! was very near
you one very bright night eighteen
years ago this month. 1t was much
such night as this. II am not mis-
taken, you we're on guard duty. We OF
the south had sharp business on hand
and you were one OF the enemy.
near your post OF duty, my murder.
Gus weapon in my hand; the shadow
hid me. As you paced back and forth
you were humming the hymn OF the
tune you have just sung raised my
gun and aimed at your heart, and |
had been selected by our commander
for the work because " as a sure shot.
Then out upon the night rang the
words:
ID, Cover my deien celess head
- With the shadow OF thy wing
Your prayer was answered. l
couldn't fire after that. And there
was no attack made upon your camp
that night. You were the man whose
life ! was spared from taking"
The singer grasped the hand OF the
Southerner, and said with much emo
ton; IL remember that night very
well, and distinctly the feeling OF de-
preston and loneliness with which l
went forth to my duty. knew my
post was one OF great danger, and l
was more detected than | remember
to have been at any other time during
the service. paced my lonely bat,
thinking OF home and friends and all
that life holds dear. Then the thought
OF Gods care for all that he has Great
ed came to me with particular force.
II He so cared for the sparrow, how
much more for man created in His
own image; and sang the prayer ofmy
heart, and ceased to feel alone. How
the prayer was answered never knew
until this evening. My heavenly Fa-
Their thought best to keep the knowl-
edge from me for eighteen years. How
much OF his goodness to us we slall
be ignorant OF until it is revealed by
the light Of eternity Jesus, lover OF
my soul, hasbeen a favorite hymn;
now it will-bc nexpressibly dear"
The incident related in the above
sketch is true one, and was related
to the writer by lady who was one
OF the party on the steamer.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-09
A Couple of Queer Graves.

Down in southern Indiana the other day
went with some newspaper friends at New
Albany out for a drive over some of the
prettiest country in the world. We went to
the "Knobs," the highest point in that part of
the state. In the distance rolled the yellow
Ohio, and away beyond, through the smoky
autumn mists, lay that fair and much sung
land-the blue grass region of Kentucky
They told some local history, and I'll give it
to you here, for it is full of quaint romance.
There, on top Of the highest hill, was the
grave of all ancient Hoosier. in them parts"
he had lived and worked land doubtless loved
and chewed tobacco and finally died He did
not do much-here in the vale The world
never heard Of him, mayhap, till now; but
he was still great-great in eccentricity. He
made them promise-in fact, put it in his
will-that when he died they should bury
him on top of that hill. for it was the nearest
place to heaven IN all the country round
about as near, he said, as he ever expected
to get So they buried him there, close I'M
der the laughing blue.
There is another queer grave in the neigh
borhood We did not go to it, but the yarn
was just as good. There were once two old
steamboat captains ON the Ohio who were
mortal enemies all through life. When one
of them saw his end approaching he asked
that, when he died, his friends would bury
him ION the banks of the Ohio, so that when
the other mans steamer went past his spirit
might utter n curse on it. So they followed
him out IA hole in the solid rock of the cliff
and there he lies to-day, a standing menace
to the craft Of the man he hated. am not
sure but 1 think the other old captain has
since been gathered to his fathers. Some one
should place them side by side, and let them
fight it out ON the other shore.-Cor. Jour
nalist
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-09

The signal service men in Washinton
are not more particular in noting the
weather and more eager to calculate TO
certainty the probabilities ahead than the
circus men. The great aim of a show is to
strike fair weather everywhere, and If
circus finds itself following the direction of
a storm it will turn aside and exchange
show seeks the nilder climate of the south
and the shekels of the genuine southerner.
Speaking of the south reminds me The re-
cent trip of the Barnum show was its first
visit south of Mason ana Dixons line, and
many PERSONS prophesied failure. Ii was
thought that the southerner would regard
the show rs a Yankee organization and give
it v-.de berth, just the opposite was the
ease. There was no show of sectional feel
ing and everywhere We were treated with
the utmost favor and cordially. Being
southerner myself, l was not n little anx-
ious at first 10 the result of the trip. but
l can truthfully say that during my father 5
management of Macauley's theater in
Louisville, ny, he was never more fairly
treated nor more generously supported
than was the show from the Nutmeg state,
"a the barnum show was called, by the
people of the south. In Hagerstown. Mary
land. May y, the schools were closed and
the courts adjourned because of our visit
and the same thing was done in other cities
Of the south. View York Mail ard Express
Interview
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-09
A Connections Farmers Discovery.

ThesmOst successful farmer in Connect
cut to-day was "a laboring man at 81 a
day not very many years ago. He is
now well to do. He learned while at work
as farm hand that on Connecticut soil man
ure properly applied is absolutely essential
for a crop. Then he began to experiment
with manures To-day he raises ten bushels
of corn TO the acre where his most industri-
Gus neighbors raise one Every inch Of his
soil pays him, and he makes more money
farming in Connecticut than he could begin
to do with the same investment in the west.
His fruit commands the highest price.
Why2 Because he used the observant eye
in his orchards.
He saw some years ago that a peach and an
apple tree into which some nails had been
driven tiourished and bore beyond all com
parison with the rest of the orchard. That
set him To thinking. 1t must be due to the
nails, he thought. Nails are iron. Trees
need iron much as human beings do, he
reflected. The iron in the soil is exhausted
probably, he reasons. Thereupon he went
To some of the large foundries and black
smithshops and bought all of the oxidized
iron flakes that fail from iron when it is
being treated the anvil. These he
trenched about the trees, and now and then
he drives IA spike into an apple or peach
tree. His crops are good, and he receives
all that he asks for his apples. pears and
peaches. New York Sun.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-09
A street Urchin'r FUNNY Prank.

Newsboys have quick an eye for the
ridiculous side of things as anybody, and
quicker than q good many of their stolid,
indifferent customers. So two young ladies
discovered over on Michigan a avenue the other
day They were out driving in a fashionable
dog cart, but ON this occasion did not have
Jeen,s up behind. A bright and ragged news
boy, who will some day be al actor or a mer-
chant, perceived his opportunity and quickly
improved it, Jumping up to the footman's
seat he perched there in comic stimulation of
the absent Jeens. The young ladies, all I'M
conscious of the ludicrous aspect their outfit
had taken on, drove along chatting merrily.
Soon they were vexed to observe that pedes-
TRANS ON either side of the thoroughfare
gazed curiously at them and grinned broad
W. Too proud to stop and make an investi-
CATION, or to turn their heads, because some
rude men chose To make sport OF them, they
drove ON in agony until a gray coated boule-
ward DO iceman rushed to their rescue. They
declare that henceforth they will exchange
fewer condolences and take less enjoyment in
their chat rather than drive out in the dog
cart without having Jeems in his proper
place -Chicago Herald.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-09
MAKE ME-"

He took my hand He did not even say
BE mine for have loved you many a day"
He only pressed IL in his lovingly;
He looked into my eyes and said, Make me-"
A mist came over mine; could not See,
And he repeated What you will make me"
Last night had dream that I was dead.
And you were there, love, bending DER my head
You held my soul and weeping saw IFS stain;
Your tears fell on it; ir was pure again
Can you not do it, will follow you
Until feel that am formed anew.
Drop down upon my eyes another tear;
Beckon me onward, and will not fear.
'Oh, take my hand Lead me your path along;
Without you am weak, but with you strong.
Love HE you love heaven, and I shall be
Worthy to dwell there with YOU oh, make me-
George Holmes.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-09
CONN BOTTOMS.

At Palstks with Jacksonville. Tampa 4 Ke
West Railway, and 81. Augustine and Palatka
Railway. and fast river steamers for ~. An.
gustine, Green Cove Springs, Jacksonville
and all points North, East and West. ALEC
with the Twin Screw Iron steamer city a
Palatka," and Steamship City of Monticello,
for Charleston, New York, Boston. Philadel-
1hia. etc.
Mail trains mail @ close connection both way
VIA !. Il. q X. w. R'y., at Jacksonville with At.
lant.c Coast Line. Fast Mail
At Gainesville with through Pullman sleeIs
ers over Savannah. Florida Western H'y for
New Orleans, Pensacola, Savannah. Albany,
points West.
AT ocsls with Florida Railway and Nsvisa.
ton Co. q. 8. q. a q. X. h.
At As or with 81. Johns river steamers for
Jacksonville, Sanford and way landings.
At Leesburg with the st. Johns and Lake
Eustis division of the Plorids Southern Rail-
way. and boats on Lakes Harris. hust 10 and
Grimm 70, all points on trkes.
At Tampa with steamships Mascofte and
Whitney every Tuesday. Thu, sdsy and Satur-
day for Key West and Havana.
At Pemberton's Ferry with South Flortds
R'y for Lakeland. Tampa. hicb1Dd, Kiseim-
me. Barlow Orls ndo 4 sanford and Dade City.
At Punta GoIfa with steamer Alice How
ard for Punta HASA and Fort Myers
General Manager. 8enr Pass. Agent.
A. C. COwAH. Ger" Trav. Art.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-09
EVER TRUE.

Joyous at heart a summer day
A lassie lands by the meadow way.
And looks at face that is very dear.
And wonders in words that know nothing of fear:
..Will you be true love: will you be trues
Will you love me as 1 love you.
VIII love grow stronger as years roll on
And be truest when youth and beauty have gomez
VIII you be true, love. will you be true:
Joyous at heart ON their wedding morn
Husband and wife walk home through the corn,
And each seems to hear the old time song;
As, hand in hand, they wander along:
viii you be true, love. will you be true
VIII you love me as I love you:
Win love grow stronger as years roll on,
And be truest when youth and beauty have gomez
VIII you be true, love. will you be- trle:'
Joyous at heart when their hair is gray,
Husband and wife together stray,
And hand clasps hand as they pass along,
And the heart of each il glad with song
You have been true, love, you have been true
Loving me well as have loved you
And time end change, and good and i'll
Have linked closer and closer still
Hearts true, love, hearts ever true :.
George Weatherby.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-09

Three trains between Jacksonville and San
ford. No change Of cars between Jackson
vile and TAMPA.
The l2:30 p. m. Cuban fast mail tram awaits
the arrival of the fast mail from the North.
and stops only at the principal stations and
at Lemon street, Palatka, making connection
Mt Ia mpa with stea1 ers for Key West and
Havana on Tuesday. Thursday al d Saturday
evenings. Pullman Buffet Sleeping cars are
attached to this train II ON New York through
TO Tam pa, and the p. IN. train from Tampa
through TO Washington. Other trains have
Chair Parlor Cars.
Direct connection IL made at Palatka with
the Florida Southern Railway to and from
Gainesville, Ocals Leesburg. and other points
reached by that road. Also withsOckla ha
river steamers, and with the st. Johns and
Halifax Railway for Ormond, Day tona. et &.
At Huntington with stages for Crescent City;
at Orange City Junction with u. ;. o. &. q
IL. Ry. for Lake Helen, at Monroe with Orange
Beat Hallway for Longwood and Oakland; al
Sanford for all points reached by South Flor.
ida Railroad.
Tram ieaving Jacksonville $40 a. IN. and
arriving $40 y. m. connect ut TItusvi le with
Steamer "kockledge" to and from Cocoa
Rockledgc. Melbourne and intermediate land
Ings on lndirn hiver. daily. except Sunday
CITY Ticket once. n. w cor. may and II ogsn sts
n. Il. MORAN,
Gen'l. supt. and g. p. A.
L. C. DEMING. A. g. r. A.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-09
His Petition Was Granted.

About month ago Whalebone Howker,
who is a young man of %, was fined 81, 200
for bringing pair of brass knuckles into the
meeting in his poke petition signed by
eighty members of the club, praying for his
release i>om the fine, was now presented IL
was figured that it would take him l zoo years
20 nav The fine and interest, and the prospect
had so appalled, him that he was sick abed.
Ii had been ascertained beyond doubt that
he had found the weapon on the street and
supposed il To be an aldernan's official badge.
-Under SIGH circumstances | will remit de
fine" said the president, but doan let it hap
pen ag!n. let VI now degenerate. DETROIT
Free Press
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-09
THE LOVE OF KANGAROOS.
A Melancholy Female and an Anxious
Mnte-A Family Meeting.

A Melancholy Female and an Anxious
Mate-A Family Meeting.
When the congress of kangaroos at the
museum were recently shipped from Aus
tralia to this city by way of Liverpool
they were separated in the latter city, part
of them being placed on the Assyrian Mon
arch and the rest on the Persian Monarch,
there not being enough room on either ship
for the fifteen cages. Flora" female
kangaroo. manifested great reluctance when
separated from her mate, who was put on
board the other steamer, and she became
very melancholy and dumpish, refusing to
eat or drink and rejecting the caresses of
her keeper, to which she had been daily
accustomed.
At first the keeper thought his pet was
sick and administered such medicine as he
thought would benefit her, but all to no
purpose, the same restlessness was apparent,
and she called repeatedly and seemed to
strain her ears for reply. During the
voyage she gave birth to two bright
kangaroo babies that nestled in the mother
pouch, peeping out now and then and hid
ing on the approach of any of the passen-
gers Meanwhile Jack" the mate OF
Flora" looked anxiously out the bars of
his cage for his mate, and called, but no
answer came. The ship bearing Flora"
was first to arrive, and the batch of kan
garOOS on board were at once sent 10 TINS
city The other load of kangaroos arrived in
New York and were shipped here at once.
At the museum Flora evinced great
uneasiness. She seemed to scent the com
ing of her mate, and when the cage CON
tanning him was carried into the museum
he heard ''Flora's'' voice, and answered.
''Flora's'' joy knew no bounds, and she
leaped about her cage in the widest excite
ment, ever and anon stopping to gaze out
from behind the bars To see IL Jack had
come. The keeper, to prevent Flora"
from injuring herself against the sides of
her cage, was obliged to bring her mate up
stairs and put him in her cage. Never
was more impressive scene enacted be-
tween animals. They embraced, licked
each other with their tongues and rubbed
their noses in expressions of affection, for
getting all about the kangaroo babies.
Finally, the father saw them and tenderly
licked their faces, while the little things
hoped from their mothers pouch tn extend
To- him friendly greeting. Jack,
Flora" and the two babies are the happiest
animals in the congress, and the keeper
vows that he will never separate them again.
Philadelphia Record.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-09
SHE TOUCHED THE CLOUDS.
A Chicago Girls Exploit in Manitou
Cheered by the Young Men.

A Chicago Girls Exploit in Manitou
Cheered by the Young Men.
Il would like to touch a cloud with my
parasol." She was young and strong, and
for the first time in her life of IL years was
in the mountains. She stood ON the long,
wide veranda of the hotel at ManitOu and
looked up at the white smoky clouds curling
about the lower mountain peaks with the
eager, puzzled, questioning eyes of a young,
impulsive girl. To the left and in front of
her the swelling, almost precipitous slopes
were bright in the sunlight. To her right
the low clouds were boiling down the mount
ain glen, shutting out the view Of Camerons
cone and sailing along at a level that took
them squarely against the lower cone of Hia-
watha mountain. Around this they moved
like a sailing vessel feeling its way along a
dangerous coast. Then they ioated of with
the wind into the space between the inter
vening peaks and touched even the top of the
high hills in front of the hotel. 1t seemed as
though she could in n short walk reach point
where she could, in fact, touch the clouds
with her parasoL
The score of people sitting on the broad
porch of the hotel watched the young girl as
she climbed straight up the hill in front, and
watched her she took the mountain trail
that led her through the light white clouds
sailing along probably 800 feet above them,
for the people at the hotel were at an eleva-
ton some 200 or 800 feet higher than the sum-
init of Mt. Washington, and the incline
toward elevations 1000, 5000 and 1000 feet
began not 100 yards away. With their
glasses they could see the girl as she stood
half EMBODIED in the whitish vapor. Then,
after another interval, they could see her be-
yond, as she half emerged above the line of
those floating clouds. So clear was the at
mosphere that the cheers of the young men
across the glen at an elevation somewhat
lower than the one reached by the girl could
be heard by her and those in the hotel.-Chi-
cago Inter Ocean
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-09

Californian wool always reminds me of
the time when the gold diggings were first
discovered in California. At Oxford il used
To be the custom at Christmas time for the
butchers 10 exhibit the prize sheep which
they had bred and purchased One butcher
procured very fine sheep, dyed its wool
purple, gilded its hoofs, and exhibited it as
n Californian sheep. IL seems hardly credi-
BILE, but numbers of persons went away in
the firm belief that all Californian sheen
had purple wool and golden hoofs.-Lonr-
mans Magazine.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-09

Pu'lmsn Bure- Csrand Ma mn Boudoir Buffet
Cars via WaycrOss, Albany and Macon. and via
waycross. Je>Up and Macon, bet ween Jack
sOnyille and C.Hcinnsti; also through Passen-
ger Coaches between avksCnv lille and Chatta.
noOga.
Pullman Buffet Cars 70 and ION JACKSON
willie and Nashville via Thomas. = and Mont
gou cry.
Pullman Buffet Cars between Jacksonville
and Washington.
WM. p. HARDEE,
General Passenger Ascent
X. q. FILMING, superintendent.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-09
Notice.
THE UNI
l. duly apps

THE UNDERSIGNED HAVING BEEN
Il duly appointed and qualified ss the Ad
ministratiix of the estate OF Peter MunrOe,
late of Putnam county. deceased-ail persons
having claims against the said estate are re-
Quired TO present the - me for pay mt y thin
the time prescribed nv law.
SCSAN f.. MUNRCE
Adminisfratrix.
December 18th. lsso. ds30-tf
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-09
Tunnel Making In Russia

Russia is going To have a railroad tunnel
three miles long, ar a cfst Of SS.5o,Ooo She
has Il, 900 miles % rail but her only tun-
mel is 10 yards long. great works Of
this kind are coutenp !, anu as RuSsial
engineers are ignoranl of tunnel making,
there is a demand for foreign skill-Franl
Leslie'S
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-09

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just coins money for all workers. We will
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the genuine, important char . Of o lifetime.
Those Tho are ambitious and enferprtsinR
TRUE Co. Augusta. Maine. Qdc.-sm
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-09
Savannah, Florida & Western
RAILWAY.
WAYCROSS SHORT LINE.

All trains OF this road are run 10y Central
Standard time,
TIME CARD IN EFFECT DECEMBER 5.
Passenger trains will leave and arrive daily
as follows:
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-09
EAST FLORIDA EXPRESS.

Pullman Buffet Cars TO and from Jackson
vile and Louisville, via Thorn asvi.le, Albany
Montgomery and Nashville, and TO and from
Barlow and Montgomery via Gainesville.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-09
Florida Southern Railway
The GRANGE BELT ROUTE.
SOUTH poUNp-cANSoN BALL.

Daily Time Table IN Effect No, 18Th. 1856.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-09

Steamer A. j. Lane makes daily round trips
on Lakes Barrie and Ia sits. Steamer DIS
patch makes only round tiiIs Oh Lake Grit